Scott River Watershed Information Forum

Monday

Mar 11, 2013 at 10:41 AMMar 11, 2013 at 10:46 AM

The Scott River Watershed Council (SRWC) will be hosting its annual Watershed Information Forum at the Fort Jones Community Center on March 20 from 9 a.m.-noon.The forum is an annual opportunity to hear from scientists, resource managers and landowners about watershed restoration and research projects being conducted throughout the Scott River watershed.

John Bowman

The Scott River Watershed Council (SRWC) will be hosting its annual Watershed Information Forum at the Fort Jones Community Center on March 20 from 9 a.m.-noon.The forum is an annual opportunity to hear from scientists, resource managers and landowners about watershed restoration and research projects being conducted throughout the Scott River watershed.

The day's first presentation will be titled "Stakeholders, Salmonids and Sediment: Over Twenty Years of Restoration in the French Creek Watershed," presented by Stuart Farber of W.M Beaty and Associates.

The next presentation will be "California Snow Surveys," presented by the Klamath National Forest.

Coho salmon restoration has been a vexing issue for the Klamath region since it's federal listing as a threatened species. To help further explore that issue, Mid-Klamath Watershed Council Executive Director Will Harling will give a presentation titled "Creating Coho Off-Channel Rearing Habitat in the Middle Klamath Sub-basin: Results and Lessons Learned."

The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors and numerous local groups have been working for at least five years to develop programs to utilize biomass fuel from Siskiyou County's overstocked forest. The final presentation of the day will be an update on the activities of the Siskiyou Biomass Utilization Group presented by Larry Alexander of the Northern California Resource Center.

The SRWC will follow the presentations with an update on their efforts with beaver management, the Strategic Action Plan, riparian planning and outreach efforts.From 11:30 a.m.-noon there will be a round-robin reporting session for attendees to report on other activities and issues around the Scott River watershed.

The Fort Jones Community Center is located at 11960 East St. in Fort Jones, behind the U.S. Post Office.

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